New Whitty Poem

The new poem i chose was Cavalry Crossing a Ford. I chose this poem because he talks about how soldiers march across a field as the beat of a drum plays. It interested me that he wrote a poem about it, i can closely relate it to the civil war and i infer that is what he wrote about. I say this because he talks of scarlet and blue along with horses, these were the colors of the uniforms during the civil war and horses are what officers rode. He also speaks of guidon flags flying in the wind, these could be either sides flags flying in the wind while battle was taking place. He also speaks of how they marched in a serpentine this meaning it looked like a snake while it is slithering through the grass. In all i think this is a good poem about the civil war that is short but gives you many things to think about while reading it.

Fav Walt Whitty Poem!